Amazon renews Transparent for 2nd season

The series, created by Jill Soloway and starring Jeffrey Tambor, has become the top-ranked series on Prime Instant Video, Amazon says.

Amazon announced on Thursday that it has greenlit a second season of its original series Transparent.

Season one debuted on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the U.S. the U.K. on Sept. 26, and has since become the top-ranked series on the service, according to the company, with nearly 80% of all viewers binge-watching on 2 or more episodes in the same day.

Transparent was one of 6 shows greenlit from Amazon’s second pilot season earlier this year, along with the hour-long dramas The After andBosch; the half-hour dramedyMozart in the Jungle andand the children’s shows Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and Wishenpoof!

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